Steampunk Definition

stēmpŭngk
noun
Science fiction set in an alternate version of the historic past, especially 19th-century England, and involving advanced technologies usually based on steam power.
American Heritage
An aesthetic style inspired by steampunk fiction.
American Heritage

(uncountable, neologism) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society.

Wiktionary

(countable, cosplay) A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.

Wiktionary
verb
To depict in a steampunk manner.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Steampunk

Noun

Singular:
steampunk
Plural:
steampunks

Origin of Steampunk

  • Coined by Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950), American science fiction writer, on the model of cyberpunk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • steam +"Ž -punk, by analogy to cyberpunk

    From Wiktionary

Steampunk Sentence Examples

  • Some later steampunk loses much of it in favor of a more cyberpunk bleakness.

  • Jules Verne, although he didn't know it, wrote steampunk.

  • Although China Mieville's novels aren't set on an alternate Earth, they just feel like steampunk to me.

  • Even Martha Wells dips into steampunk territory with her novels set in the nation of ile-Rein, particularly in her earlier Death of the Necromancer.

  • I admit, steampunk is just about my favorite of the sci-fi genres.

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